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Spring Cleaning
As we say goodbye to winter, and usher in Spring, it’s the perfect time to clean and organize and perhaps purge as Mr Morris suggests! One of our favourite ways to start, is to banish all heavy drapes and dark pillows to the linen closet, and hang simple light reflecting fabrics and lace at the windows. Bring wildflowers indoors, and force branches of flowering trees by simply placing in water filled vases. Within a week you will have flowering blooms!…
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Sicily curtain featured on Houzz
Our black lace curtain, Sicily, is featured in an Ideabook by Krita Raut, Houzz India Contributor. Go look: Soft Furnishing Maintenance 101
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2016…Back in the Pink
What is it about pink? I am obsessed with this colour …again! Cannot get enough of it. Now it seems that Pantone has declared Rose Quartz the 2016 shade of choice…..<strong>Rose Quartz</strong> is the stone of unconditional love. One of the most important stones for Heart Chakra work, <strong>Rose Quartz</strong> opens the heart to all types of love – love of self, love of family, love of friends, romantic love. They have partnered it with Serenity, a soft baby blue.…
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Bonne Année!
I have high hopes for 2015! New Beginnings for the home often begin in January, windows are the eyes, and need refreshing. Sheer fabrics such as lace are no longer banished to hiding behind heavier curtains, but have a starring role these days. So much simpler, and fresh, allowing the natural light to show through. Try putting your heavier curtains away and allowing this soft simple effect to change the appearance of your windows!
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Paris in April…….
Who could resist a holiday in France surrounded by all the objects that the French do so well! So many timeworn treasures, so many beautiful words: faience, bergere, fauteille, canape, trumeau, etc.
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Burlap is the New Velvet
The Burlap trend has been around for awhile, and it’s a great way to repurpose grain sacks. You can use them to upholster benches, make pillows and curtains, and even do a patchwork job on a comfy chair to give character to a room. There is a crossover into hemp and linen curtains, which we will be adding to our Highland Lace Curtain line in the next month! We have done a sheer linen curtain to…
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Wedding Days……….
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Yelapa Window
Warm winds wind around the curtains of Yelapa.
